How Would the Twins Fare in the Grapefruit League South?

The proposed alignment is better than no baseball. Still, it is much more difficult than the existing AL Central so get me back to the way things used to be and out of this "new normal".

One of the best teams on paper in the team’s history, arguably in the MLB this year. Our best player and clubhouse heartbeat (Cruz) has one, maybe two, elite seasons left before age finally catches up. The Red Sox are down, the Indians are down, the American League favorites are rocked by a cheating scandal. Everything looks primed for a special season....and a freaking worldwide pandemic shuts down the season.

Unreal.

Just to be clear, there are obviously much worse things. But, in terms of first world problems, this is a big one for me.

I actually love it.  Get baseball going have something a little different to shake things up.  The division would be tough and I ready don’t think we would win it but baseball back is important

It would be better than no baseball, but due to the problems in Florida, has many reservations it would work.  Maybe the whole season would have to be played in Arizona to make it work.

My hope this season is that eventually everything would return to normal. Under this premise it can`t, they are forced to play all their games at their preseason camp. Although to start the season it`d be reasonable to have a Florida (AL) & Arizona (NL), switching a few teams base camps to accommodate the restructuring. But anything is better than nothing 

The more they talk about warping the very fabric of the league to try and manufacture a season, the more I wonder if a season's worth having at all

It falls right in line with all the other video game-level stupid ideas they've suggested to "spice up the game" in recent years.

I'm torn either way personally.  I love baseball and want to see it played, but I may not be to crazy about the fundamental changes for this "season" (although that isn't a deal breaker for me personally).

Ultimately, I truly just want to see my son and his HS team play.  My head knows the reasons for shutting down his season, and I support them... but, my heart had a very hard time watching what was shaping up to be a breakout season cut short (.7 ERA / .7 WHIP / 15.39 K/9 / 17:1 K:BB Ratio - you get the picture).  

He may get to play summer ball (we shall see how things pan out), but in the mean time... even a warped version of our National Pastime may be better than nothing .

Seems someone here made a proposal similar in concept, this just takes it a step further by restricting travel to FL/AZ.

http://twinsdaily.com/topic/36617-schedule-proposal

Not much left to care about this season. Play for fun. Maybe round robbin. I cannot imagine pretending that this season matters.

Boston is even going to struggle more with Chris Sale out with elbow surgery.

I have also read some stuff where they could play all of the games in AZ? If that were the case then they could play their normal divisions.

The proposed alignment is better than no baseball. 

Agreed. If they were to play in the "Grapefruit South," one of three divisions, 5 teams means they would need some games outside the division. I'm curious to see how MLB might resolve this--I'm guessing they wouldn't use "interleague" games between AZ and FL! 

Some team plays a doubleheader against two others, thus 8 games among 16 teams? Or off days--only 14 teams playing in 7 games per day?

Re the schedule, 12 games against each of 4 division rivals is 48 games, 6 games against 10 others outside the division would be 108 total games.  No cold weather problem playing into the autumn in FL & AZ. 

Final thought: please, one full, healthy season from Buxton.

I see the Twins battling Boston for 3rd place in this setup. If it were regular baseball, I see the Twins eeking out a division win over the White Sox with Cleveland 3rd. I know we are all Twins fans so we have some rose colored glasses when looking at the Twins but I don't think we can expect several players to duplicate their 2019 seasons. I hope I am wrong but have to look at it realistically. In my simulated, not scientific, season using the regular MLB schedule, the Twins are 9-7 through games of April 15th and in second place behind, of all teams, KC (I told you it was not scientific).

Happy Jackie Robinson Day.

The proposed setup with the Braves and Rays, would be good prep for the World Series. If we go back to the old division, we could be the first team to go undefeated since the Miracle Mets.